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The Library of Congress’ National Film Registry announced on December 12th its selection of 25 new works to their archive. Among the selections is Something Good-Negro Kiss, a silent film from 1898 of great historical importance. The University of Chicago’s…

The UK National Archives in London have a collection of over 4000 boxes containing over 160,000 undelivered letters, taken from ships that were captured by the British during the naval wars of the 17th-19th centuries. The mail was sent between…

I wanted to share this article I found from The Atlantic, which contains a collection of 21 high resolution color photographs taken by Jack Delano (1914 – 1997), a photographer who traveled through America’s countryside in the early 1940s, hoping…

A lot of people see archives as a stuffy, closed room full of old papers and photographs that have little or no relation to present day at all. The British Royal Archive, however, is proving them wrong: As part of…

As a person of Jewish heritage, I found this particular story very interesting because of how similar the story of Robert Morgenthau’s ( former District Attorney for NYC) ancestral history has been to mine. My great-grandparents also emigrated…

After years of alluding historians because of a dating error in the catalogue, a researcher has accidentally uncovered a telling letter from Galileo that was previously considered lost. The handwritten document is massively historically relevant: according to Nature.com, the contents…

I’ve used index cards twice within the past six months alone. In one instance I used them for memorizing the different names and prices of similarly-themed products at the store where I work part-time. In the other, I was providing…

Some of the most poignant photographs in American history come from FSA photographers like Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange who traveled through depression-era country-side and documented the struggles of traveling farmers. Many of the photographs that were popular then are…

WomensActivism.nyc is a crowdsourced digital archive highlighting the contributions of women throughout history. Sponsored by the New York City Department of Records and Information Services, the archive was launched as a five-year celebration of women’s suffrage in the United States.…

(Connecting to Emma’s blog post about crowdsourced tagging and transcription) Crowdsourcing is a valuable way for museums, archives, libraries and many other institutions to gather metadata about their collections. Crowdsourcing can also be a valuable method for building collections.…